FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with gcc-5): commit: 7cc622617a698b2ad91b74b59d967c707513a0ce ("keys: Network namespace domain tag") https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git keys-acl in testcase: trinity with following parameters: runtime: 300s test-description: Trinity is a linux system call fuzz tester. test-url: http://codemonkey.org.uk/projects/trinity/ on test machine: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -cpu SandyBridge -smp 2 -m 4G caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace): +----------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | | fb7b3faf7e | 7cc622617a | +----------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ | boot_successes | 30 | 4 | | boot_failures | 2 | 12 | | IP-Config:Auto-configuration_of_network_failed | 2 | | | WARNING:at_lib/refcount.c:#refcount_sub_and_test_checked | 0 | 12 | | RIP:refcount_sub_and_test_checked | 0 | 12 | +----------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+ [ 202.814406] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5 at lib/refcount.c:187 refcount_sub_and_test_checked+0x185/0x29b [ 202.816665] CPU: 0 PID: 5 Comm: kworker/u2:0 Not tainted 5.0.0-rc3-00011-g7cc62261 #1 [ 202.818388] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1 04/01/2014 [ 202.820214] Workqueue: netns cleanup_net [ 202.821143] RIP: 0010:refcount_sub_and_test_checked+0x185/0x29b [ 202.822427] Code: 01 00 00 00 48 c7 c7 98 4a bf 85 c6 05 48 28 ee 03 01 e8 ae 2f 69 ff 48 c7 c7 80 fc a9 83 48 ff 05 aa ce 45 04 e8 b5 a9 57 ff <0f> 0b b9 01 00 00 00 31 d2 be 01 00 00 00 48 c7 c7 68 4a bf 85 e8 [ 202.826212] RSP: 0000:ffff88811a767c70 EFLAGS: 00010286 [ 202.827363] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 202.828847] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffffed10234ecf83 [ 202.830342] RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: fffffbfff0badff1 R09: fffffbfff06d6079 [ 202.831839] R10: fffffbfff0c0647f R11: fffffbfff0badff1 R12: 00000000ffffff01 [ 202.833336] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000003 R15: 0000000000000001 [ 202.834834] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff84a97000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 202.836618] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 202.837861] CR2: 000055a7e7a69cc8 CR3: 00000000b0731000 CR4: 00000000000406f0 [ 202.839329] Call Trace: [ 202.840001] ? refcount_inc_checked+0xdc/0xdc [ 202.841010] ? dec_ucount+0x230/0x26e [ 202.841889] ? inc_ucount+0x44b/0x44b [ 202.842770] key_put_tag+0x10/0x4b [ 202.843609] key_remove_domain+0x1a/0x50 [ 202.844541] cleanup_net+0x36b/0x3e3 [ 202.845407] ? net_drop_ns+0x6b/0x6b [ 202.846280] ? finish_task_switch+0x4e0/0x5ab [ 202.847293] ? ftrace_likely_update+0x2dd/0x30d [ 202.848330] ? ftrace_likely_update+0x2dd/0x30d [ 202.849366] process_one_work+0x43f/0x691 [ 202.850313] worker_thread+0x58c/0x724 [ 202.851212] ? process_scheduled_works+0x37/0x37 [ 202.852256] kthread+0x267/0x277 [ 202.853058] ? __kthread_bind_mask+0x35/0x35 [ 202.854160] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 [ 202.855020] ---[ end trace 9feac3b0410f7e0a ]--- To reproduce: git clone https://github.com/intel/lkp-tests.git cd lkp-tests bin/lkp qemu -k job-script # job-script is attached in this email Thanks, lkp